Watch-holder.



C. H. ALLEN.

WATCH HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED JAN- B. 1915.

Patented Dec. 21, 1915.

Inventur.

Witnesses. QM/

COLUMBIA PLANODRAPH CO.,\VI\SHINGTON. D c

CHARLES H. ALLEN, OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

WATCH-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 21, 1915.

Application filed January 8, 1915. Serial No. 1,232.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Attleboro, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Watch-l-lolders, of which the following is a specification.

The invention forming the subject of this application for patent, relates to improved means for holding a watch in position, as for example, a one piece watch -holder adapted to be attached to ladys arm bracelet. The said holder when normally connected with a bracelet forms a safety device for the watch in that the watch is prevented from dropping bodily from the holder while the latter and the bracelet are thus connected together. The holder is integral, being formed from a piece of suitable thin sheetmetal stock.

The device is simple in construction and arranged to readily receive and retain the watch. It may be added that the act of attaching or mounting the watch in the holder, as well as in detaching it therefrom may be effected in less time than is required in the manipulation of watch-holders of this general type heretofore devised.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of a watch holder embodying my improvement; and Fig. 2 is a side or edge elevation of the device, showing a watch normally held or seated therein and connected with the end links of a wrist bracelet.

Again referring to the drawings, H indicates my improved integral watch-holder member, cut from suitable somewhat resilient sheet-metal stock. The said holder member comprises a practically flat base or body part m having a suitable form or contour, its upper portion being provided with a pair of spaced forwardly bent spring clips 971- m while its lower portion is provided with a pair of suitably spaced forwardly bent yieldable clips, m m The bottom end of the holder is provided with a downwardly extending central open hook or analogous member a, while the upper end portion of the holder has a tongue 6 extending a distance above and intermediate of the said clips m m a small aperture t is or may be formed in the upper end of the tongue adapted to receive a hook or analogous member of the corresponding end of a bracelet. See also Fig. 2. The stock of the holder may be cut or incised downward to or below the base of. the clips m as inclicated in Fig. 1.

In assembling the parts, an end of a bracelet is or may be first hooked into the corresponding open hook 7t of the holder member H, then slightly tilting the watch (having its bow b swung to a sub stantially horizontal position) the free end of tongue 6 is inserted through the positioned bow, at the-same time gently pressing the watch under the clips m m in a snaplike manner to engage the base of the holder member, followed by attaching the other or opposite end of the bracelet into the aperture t of the tongue then projecting through the watch-bow. A reversal of the said operation permits the watch to be readily detached from the holder member H and bracelet. As thus devised the positioned watch closes one end of the bracelet while the tongue 6, in connection with the downwardly swung bow 6, acts to positively prevent accidental separation of the watch from the holder.

It will be observed that the stem of the watch is adapted to lie in the open space a formed between the adjacent clips on, (see Fig. 1), thereby preventing the watch from moving axially in or on the holder.

.Obviously, I do not claim broadly as my invention a watch-holder formed from a single piece of stock; my improvement resides essentially in a watch-holder having a tongue arranged to pass through a watchbow and means for detachably securing the holder to an end of a bracelet. By means of my improvement the watch is capable of being superposed bodily on the front of the holder. If desired, the base portion of the tongue may be bent, as at 6 to facilitate the attachment of the bracelet to the tongue.

I claim as my invention:

1. The improved device herein described for detachably holding a watch in position, the same consisting of a base portion having a plurality of bent clip members adapted to engage the rim of a watch, a tongue memberadapted to extend outward through the bow of the watch, a pair of clip members disposed contiguons to said tongue adapted, when in use, to prevent the watch from moving axially while it is supported in the holder, and means integral With the holder whereby the latter may be connected to a bracelet.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a Watch-holding device consisting of a single piece of suitable sheet metal formed to provide a base member, said base member having a plurality of peripherally arranged clips adapted to yieldingly engage the rim of a Watch, and a tongue member also integral with the base and extending radially beyond its general contour, and having the outer or free end portion of the tongue adapted to pass freely through the movable bow of a Watch for the purpose set forth.

In'testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES H. ALLEN.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. REMINGTON, CHARLES C. REMINGTON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0. 

